Borrowed from the internet.
Once upon a time, there was a boy who cried wolf, just for the attention. And when the real wolf came, nobody believed him, and he perished.
It is just one too many times.
When Kamala Harris roared on the scene, and Trump's campaign flagged, he had a "miraculous" incident, thanks to God himself. But it was only miraculous for HIM. A fan of his died. A family was destroyed.
Still, later in the campaign there was a second such incident. Inside his own golf course. The only real result of this was that the head of Trump's Secret Service detail, who had total control of BOTH venues, and who should have been fired for gross incompetence, was instead promoted to head the entire Secret Service for Trump after his inauguration.
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Trump hung his mug shot outside the Oval Office, and commissioned a new White House portrait based on it, menacingly lit from beneath. This was to be his image for his new term. Trump the Invincible, Avenging Dark Lord of Retribution and Might.
Sort of a Darth Vader, reimagined. But Darth would be nothing without his legions of Stormtroopers. Trump put a flunky in charge of the military, and ordered a miltiary display of his own, that would rival Putin's and make the Whole World shake in its boots.
But last weekend, only one week ago, that wonderful new image of Trump's fell totally apart. His birthday parade was shunned and shamed and he ended up looking ridiculous.
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If that wasn't bad enough, two days later he got shut down at the G7, and his exit, rather than looking like a show of strength, looked like a childish tantrum.
He immediately went on the defensive, huffing that he had left the G7 because he was NEEDED back in Washington. He had something even BIGGER than the mideast crisis to deal with. This is not about IRAN, he said. Much much BIGGER. Wait until you hear about it!
And so, his HUGE flagpole erection two days later made him even more of a laughingstock.
He was totally flailing at this point. Trump decided to have his Press Barbie make a STRONG announcement. He was going to stop waffling on Iran, and give himself TWO WEEKS to make up his mind - let Iran be WARNED!
The result was HOWLS of derision. Two weeks?
Again?
That was it.
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Not even a day later, betraying his own word, and America's too, he bombed Iran.
Without obeying the Constitution and going through Congress. The President can act in a crisis, and respond if we come under attack. He CANNOT act alone presumptively, because he THINKS a country might be developing weapons of mass destruction.
We have been here before.
And THIS time, not even his own Intelligence community backed him up. Our head of Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, the person HE appointed, told him that Iran was NOT close to having a nuclear bomb.
Her absence at Trump's presser was VERY telling.
There were no generals standing behind him. Just Marco Rubio, looking awkward, with Pete Hegseth, standing back and looking over his shoulder. The head of the Department of Defense, positioned the farthest from Trump, and not looking cocky, for perhaps the first time in his life.
On Trump's other side stood JD Vance. The look on his face was the look you see on a school kid who is watching his rival make a complete and utter fool of himself. Not just smug. Satsified.
He knows what could very well be happening for him, very soon.
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Also very telling was the speech itself. Obviously written by Trump himself. Belligerent, childish and self-obsessed. A rally speech. But this was NOT a rally, it was a declaration of WAR. People DIED.
But Trump cannot tell the difference.
The speech was not written by Stephen Miller. This was no polished presentation for the world stage. Everything about it showed that this was Trump's event, and his alone.
Immediately after the speech, House Speaker Mike Johnson rushed out a social media post fawning and gushing all over Trump. But if he knew about Trump's attack, he was the only person in Congress who did. Other Republican lawmakers immediately reacted with anger.
They weren't the only ones.
Maga influencers had been reminding Trump that he RAN on keeping America OUT of conflicts and endless mideast wars. Bannon had tried to talk him down - even Tucker Carlson had warned him.
But Trump is only about Trump. And after his sorry showing during this past week, AMERICA might not have been in any danger, but his BRAND sure was. He needed SOMETHING to restore his image. And he wanted it NOW.
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If anything was symbolic about last night, it was the picture that was on every channel, while the networks waited for Trump's speech. A large dark ominous shadow moved back and forth across the face of the White House.
It was the used-car dealership sized flag hanging from his new flagpole. In the darkness. Regulations say a flag flying at night should have a light on it. I am sure the company that sold him the flagpoles had mentioned that.
But that is Trump in a nutshell. He does things on the cheap, and he never thinks them through. He never completes the task. Ever.
Ever.
Last night, the American flag hung in front of the White House in total darkness. A fitting symbol, indeed.”
- Glee Violette
